After many days working with the Ministry of Education and Academy of Singapore Teachers, I have *finally* had the chance to get into some schools! I had two terrific visits to two very different classrooms, and I left both visits energized and excited about the future of education technology in Singapore. My first visit was […]
Author: Justin Reich
What I'm Up To
The Berkman Center recently asked me to provide an update on my work over recent months. Here it is: Greetings! Sorry for my tardiness. I’ve spent the the last two weeks in Singapore, serving as an Outstanding Educator in Residence with the Academy of Singapore Teachers. It has been an amazing exchange, and incredibly […]
Experiencing continuous improvement in Singapore
One of the amazing facets of my visit to Singapore is that I’ve not just been invited to present to audiences, but I have been invited to be part of the system in Singapore. Over the past week, I have had the chance to offer two history master classes to Singapore teachers on tech integration […]
Adventures in Singapore: What would happen if you could get everyone in the same room?
One of the great things about my job, is that by virtue of being an outsider, often organizations will bring together diverse groups of people to solve important challenges around technology integration (“Justin Reich is coming next week, let’s have him meet with all the stakeholders.) But the meeting I had in Singapore on Friday […]
Passion-Driven Learning and Outdoor Education
You know those people into webinars who dial in from overseas at ungodly hours… that was me today, hosting a 4pm EDT webinar at 5am from Singapore. We were lucky to host Angela Maiers, who is coming this March to keynote the MassCUE/METAA Leadership Conference, and our conversation was about Angela’s campaign to promote Passion […]
Adventures in Singapore: Equity as a Pathway to Excellence
Fact: The national school systems with the highest test scores also have the least variation in test scores among subgroups (by race and income). In other words, the best systems are also the most equitable. What’s harder to prove, but seems to be the case, is that equity is not merely a by-product of excellence, […]
Adventures in Singapore: Teacher Leadership
The teaching job in America was designed as a temporary position, for men before the headed to college or for women before they got married. As it transitioned into being a career, it never really developed the features of having a career trajectory. It’s one of the only careers in America where the responsibilities that […]
Singapore Education–Teachers Leading the Next Level of Work
So if you are one of the world’s best education systems, how do you keep getting better? In Singapore, the answer is the Academy of Singapore Teachers. One of the most important points that came out of the McKinsey evaluation of global education was that the strategies that get a school system from poor to […]
Ask a Researcher: Motivation and Education Technology
Another question in my Ask a Researcher series: This leads me to a question I wanted to ask you about the role of student motivation in measuring the successful implementation of OERs. When Sal Khan was at my school a couple of weeks ago, he met with teachers and I asked Sal Khan how his […]
Ask a Researcher: EdTech Inequality in Developing Countries
Ask a Researcher question in response to my Berkman Luncheon talk: Will Free Benefit the Rich? Just watched the video, I found it very useful. I am writing a paper concerning the urban/rural divide in education in Thailand and what you are saying about the ‘haves and have nots’ is very relevant to what I […]